Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-25
Is CONSUMPTION CURABLE2
Supposed New Specific for the Terrible Dis
ease-Recont Wonderful Experiments.


ease-Recsnt Wonderful Experiments.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The entire world is much excited by
what is regarded as the most marvellous
discovery CT modern times in medical
science. 1t is now confidently asserted
that specific and com qlete cure for con-
sumption has been discovered. Some
time ago professor in the University of
Lyons, France, read paper on his cure for
the dreaded and heretofore insurmOunta-
BILE disease. The remedy is very sim
pie, and consists simply of an Injection
of carbOnic acid gas into the bowels. The
paper attracted wide attention, and the
French DOCTORS suggestions were acted
upon in the London consumption hospit-
ais with marked success. DR.. McLough-
lin, chief physician Of the Philadelphia
almshouse, was the first American doctor
to experiment with the new supposed
specific for phthisis. he submitted his
plans to
THIRTY CONSERVATIVE PATIENTS,
who consented TO have the operation
tried on them. The result was most re
markable. One man was in a terrible
state He was actually doubled up, sui
fered intensely from hacking cough, an
obstinate diarrh9a. and that cold sweat
which is peculiar to an advanced stage Of
the disease. They tried the experiment
on him, and inside of forty-eight hours
the sweating disappeared, and he was en-
tirely relieved of his distressing cough.
At that time the man was absolutely dy-
ing, but after four days treatment he
could walk about apparently as we'll as
ever, and eat dozen of oysters.
In another case a Woman's right lung
was breaking up and large cavity was
discernable in it. When the treatment
was applied she used to expeCtorate daily
large quantity Of pus. In her case also
the result was perfectly incredible and
she has gained very much in flesh. One
man has gained twelve pounds since they
began the treatment on him; others from
three pounds to nine pounds, and one
man who had not left his bed for three
months now walks around every day.
The Enquirer of Saturday contained g
dispatch from Philadelphia giving some of
THE ASTONISHING EFFECTS
of the new treatment. Some physicians
in this city have been using the remedy
for two or three months, and all are
greatly impressed by it. a prominent
doctor was called upon yesterday by an
Enquirer reporter. He exhibited the
apparatus with which the work is done.
1t is simple COntrivance.
An ordinary chemical wash-bottle is
partly filed with blCarbOnate of soda,
and the bottle is attached to a gas-bag
by an ordinary rubber tube. By
pouring sulphuwc acid into the bot
tie carbonic acid gas is generated,
which evapOIates into and fills up the gas
bag bottle of sulphur water is Sc
cured, and the CarOOuiC acid gas Is per-
mitted to evapOrate into the bottle con-
tanning the sulphur, thus producing the
sulphurated hydrogen. This preparation
is then III eCted into the bowels, and re-
lief to the patient is said to be almost in
stantaneous. The physician claimed that
the hydrOzen is absorbed by the blood
and passes into the lung tissues and de
str0ys the microbes. Half an hour after
the injection the offensive OdOr of
the gas can be smelled on the
breath OF the patient, being eXhaled by the
lungs. In case there is no sulphur
water at hard, warm water is used
and passed through tube in which are
balls of cotton saturated with sUlpnuric
6Cid modified so as not to burn the
bowels. The only disagreeable effect of
the operation is slight expansion of the
abdomen, which soon disappears. 1t is
not only claimed for the new remedy that
it is remedial, but that it is absolutely
curative in it's properties. A few of our
leading physicians have
NOT ENTIRE FAITH
in the discovery, wnicn they insist is still
only an experiment. The remarkable re-
suit of the Philadelphia physicians in the
treatment of the elmshouse C0nsump-
tlves, is causing a sensation everywhere.
Ii the disease which has heretofore been
invnci0le has been conquered at last.
nearly 1000 lives will be preserved
every year in the Uuited States alone.